Ragi Pakoda (Finger millet fritters)

Ragi or Finger millet is one of the most nutritious and healthy cereals.  Include ragi in our daily diet because of it's health benefits.  Mostly ragi introduce to everyone in the form of porridge from our childhood. It's health benefits are amazing.  So, today we are going to prepare an easy and healthy Indian snack with ragi or finger millet. Let's start to prepare tasty ragi pakoda in our home...

Ingredients:

Ragi flour                                            - 1 cup

Rice flour                                            - 2 tbsp

Big onion (Chopped)                          - 2 numbers

Ginger (Finely chopped)                    - 1 tsp

Curry leaves                                       - one sprig

Asafoetida                                          - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Water as needed

Coriander leaves (optional)

Preparation:

>  Take all the ingredients other than oil and water and mix it well in a bowl

> Add required amount of water to prepare a sticky dough

> Heat enough oil in a bowl for deep frying 

> Sprinkle raw ragi mixture in to the oil

> Deep fry till crisp and golden brown on medium hot oil

> Once its ready, remove from oil and drain on absorbent paper and serve hot

It will be perfect to have with some tomato ketchup and tea... :-)

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More recipes with Ragi / Finger millet / Panjapullu :-

* Ragi milkshake

* Ragi puttu / Ragi steamed cake

* Ragi porridge / Ragi kurukku for toddlers


* Ragi ada

Rava Uppuma

Rava uppuma is very tasty to eat and easy to prepare breakfast dish.  We can prepare uppuma in many varieties, like with vegetables, without vegetables, with coconut, without coconut etc., For a beginner, we will use roasted rava for the preparation of uppuma. Today, we are going to prepare easiest version of uppuma with carrot... Let's start...

Ingredients:

* Roasted rava                         - 1 cup

* Mustard                                 - 1 tsp

* Big Onion (Chopped)           - 1

* Bengal gram dhal                 - 1 tsp

* Black gram dhal                   - 1 tsp

* Ginger (Chopped)                - 1/4 tsp

* Green chilli (Chopped)        - 1/2 tsp

* Curry leaves                         - a few

* Carrot (finely chopped)       - 3 tbsp (as per requirement)

* Oil                                        - 2 tbsp

*Ghee                                     - 1 tsp

* salt                                       - as per requirement

* water                                   - 2 cups

Preparation:

> Heat oil and splutter mustard

> Add chopped onion and saute' well

> Add black gram dhal and bengal gram dhal and fry till golden brown

> Add ginger, chilli and curry leaves and saute' well

> Add carrot and saute' well

> Add water, required salt and ghee and close the lid  and allow it to boil

>After boiling, add roasted rava and stir well and close the lid and cook for 2- 5 minutes ( stir in between)

> Yummy uppuma is ready, serve it hot... :-)



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